Student painting adorns local shopping bag

Hannah Shepardson created this colorful shopping bag along with Hinesburg Community School art teacher Katie O’Brien.

When a talented Hinesburg Community School second-grade student created a drawing featuring sunflowers, a fundraiser aimed at helping the local food shelf also took flight.

Hannah Shepardson created the colorful drawing along with Community School art teacher Katie O’Brien.

The design was later transferred to Hinesburg Community Resource Center shopping bags.

The fabric bags sell for $10, with proceeds going to the Hinesburg Food Shelf.

Each tote is designed to hold one week’s worth of groceries for one client who utilizes the agency’s services.

So far, the effort has raised $2,000 and will continue throughout the year.

“I invited the board of the Resource Center to look at the painting of the sunflowers,” said Ginny Roberts, a member of the Resource Center’s board. She also heads up the school’s Connecting Youth Mentoring Program.

Roberts said that the Community Resource Center utilized sites, such as a local online news forum, to advertise the bag’s availability.

Bags can be purchased at the Hinesburg Community School as well as at several upcoming community events.